2007年11月26日月曜日

Book Review 2-9

I read the book "MR BEAN IN TOWN". I will tell about Mr. Bean before I summarize this story. Mr. Bean is a character of British comedy program starring Rowan Atkinson. Rowan also wrote the stories himself. I review the story about Steak Tartare.
It was Mr. Bean's birthday. Mr. Bean put on a clean shirt and his best coat, trousers and shoes. Then he drove to a restaurant in the center of town. He arrived at eight o'clock and went inside. It was very nice restaurant. Everybody was wearing their best clothes, and there were flowers on every table. The manager met him at the door and took him to a table. The manager pulled the chair away from the table. Then he waited for Mr. Bean to sit down. However, Mr. Bean did not sit down and looked at him. When the manager went away, Mr. Bean sat quietly. He took a birthday card and an envelope out of his jacket. Then he wrote something and put it on the table. After a minute or two, Mr. Bean pretended to see the card for the first time. The manager arrived with the menu and gave it to Mr. Bean. He realized that everything was very expensive. He put the money on to a plate and began to count up it. Finally, he ordered Steak tartare. After that, a waiter arrived at Mr. Bean's table with a bottle of wine. The waiter put some wine in Mr. Bean's glass and he had a drink. He smiled and waiter tried to put more wine into the glass. He didn't know about wine manners and he quickly put his hand across the glass. The waiter looked at him strangely. Then Mr. Bean took the knife and started to play with it. The woman at the next table looked at him angrily. He also played with his napkin. A minute later, the waiter arrived with his food. There was a large cover on the plate. Mr. Bean couldn't see the food, but he gave the waiter the money on the table. Customers don't usually give a waiter money when he arrives with the food. The waiter didn't say anything and took the money. Mr. Bean was happy because he thought that he was doing everything right. When he saw his dish, his smile disappeared. He thought they didn't cook that meat and could not eat it. He wanted to change his dish, but he couldn't ask the manager. He was afraid that people thought he was stupid. Then he thought he would never ask for steak tartare. The waiter asked him whether he was all right or not. He smiled and pretend eat some meat. He tried to hide the meat in any ways. He had an idea. First, He put the meat into the mustard pot and put the cover on it. Next, he took the flower out of the vase. He then put some meat into the vase and pushed the flowers in on top of it. He also pushed some of meat inside the roll. Then, he put more meat under the small plate and into the sugar pot and so on. Finally, he put some meat into a violinist's trousers. He thought everything went well. When the waiter walked past with some plates of food, he fell over Mr. Bean's foot. The plates fell on to Mr. Bean's table and on to the floor. The moment the people looked up the waiter, he got an idea. He pretended to be very angry and blamed the waiter that his meat was spread around his table by him. The manager came and apologized him. He invited Mr. Bean to another table. The violinist began to play "Happy Birthday" to him. Mr. Bean smiled. The waiter put a plate in front of Mr. Bean. The manager smiled and took off the cover. Mr. looked down and stopped smiling. There was Steak tartare in front of him!
Recently, I got to like Mr. Bean. He is a good comedian like Charles Chaplin. I can enjoy with his joke, but I think reading his joke like this is not interesting at all. Then I found his movie about Steak Tartare from You tube. You should watch it than read my review.

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ai さんのコメント...

I know Mr. bean.
I also think the movies are better than the books!